SPOTLIGHT

UNREC Focus Newsletter – N°33 October 2018 Issue

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UN receives ‘Humanium’ wristwatch gift, symbolizing peaceful transformation

Nepal to Host ODA Courses for Training Asia-Pacific States in Management of Conventional Ammunition, 11-16 November

First Committee Approves 27 Texts, Including 2 Proposing New Groups to Develop Rules for States on Responsible Cyberspace Conduct

ODA launches bi-annual information bulletin “Saving Lives”, available in English, French and Spanish.

Approving 8 Drafts on Conventional Arms, First Committee Urges States to Help Reduce Human Suffering by Upholding Treaty Commitments

First Committee Sends 8 Drafts to General Assembly, including text Aimed at Identifying, Holding Perpetrators of Chemical Weapon Use Accountable

HR Nakamitsu’s Briefing to the Security Council on the Situation in the Middle East (Syria)

VIDEO: Watch briefing

DISARMAMENT IN THE NEWS

Imaging drones to spot signs of explosive chemicals leaking from landmines

UNFOLD ZERO interviews UN General Assembly President

Project to connect American youth with Atomic Bomb survivors (Hibakusha) winding down

japantimes.co.jp

Showing Hiroshima’s Reality

FEATURED CONTENT

First Committee of the Seventy-Third Session of the General Assembly

International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

Securing Our Common Future: An Agenda for Disarmament

Disarmament Education

UNODA UPDATE

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Understanding the Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons on the Dark Web

“Nuclear Weapons Today, from Hiroshima to Nagasaki to the Ban Treaty”: A Professional Development Workshop for High School Educators

High-Level Event at German Mission on Disarmament That Saves Lives in Support of the Secretary-General’s Disarmament Agenda

Data-Driven Protection and Arms Control

Strengthening the Role of the Regional Centres in the Context of the Secretary-General’s Disarmament Agenda

ANNOUNCEMENTS

(Information for delegations) preliminary information for participants at the Third Review Conference of the Programme of Action on small arms and light weapons

High-level international conference on nuclear disarmament and its organizational meeting postponed

Notes Verbale requesting views of Member States for disarmament-related reports mandated by the General Assembly

Information for States parties, observer States and IGOs attending the Preparatory Committee for the 2020 Review Conference of the NPT

Information for NGOs attending next Preparatory Committee for the 2020 Review Conference of the NPT

EVENTS